Who is the ChiefHomeOfficer?

YOU are - or anyone who works from home. Whether you're a full-time 1099er, a corporate teleworking W-2er, a part-time eBayer, or any head-of-household handling family, finances and affairs from a corner desk - and in search of a little balance in the home office, then ChiefHomeOfficer's your destination.
Think of Chief Home Officer.com as LifeHacker meets the home office - no matter what home office you run. Entrepreneurs will discover SOHO 2.0 business insight. Teleworkers will learn leading-edge remote work strategies. will spot tips, tales and links on balance. And those considering making the leap into home officing will unearth equal parts reality and validation. Explore. Learn. Return.

The SOHO Sherpa…

ChiefHomeOfficer is your SOHO Sherpa - a guide to all the things that make the Small Or Home Office (SOHO) work. Since 1993, we've chronicled the work-at-home adventure. Today, the site offers honest and occasionally humorous insights, tips, tech/product reviews, and commentary that cut through the "Make Millions From Home" promise and just lay down the real skinny on a lifestyle people can work and live with.

Want to learn more? If you work from home, want to, or are a corporate marketer hoping to talk to those who do, email jeff [at] chiefhomeofficer dot com.

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Check out this photo from Flickr. I don’t know, does something seems awry, amiss or just plain caddywompus? Actually, it’s an inspiring image — at least to those of us who (lamentably) find technology and organization pretty darn cool (at this point, my wife would be shaking her head and sighing…)

What’s your dream home office? A corner of the den? The kitchen table? A dedicated 400-square-foot garage transformed into a colorful, contemporary space all your own? Read about Debra Prinzing, a Los Angeles author who has interviewed a number home-based business owners for her new book “Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways.” A perfect home office, she says, means “You have to be able to walk into this space and have it be fully dedicated,” she says.

Newspapers are notorious in their bleeding of ink — and cash — in the digital era. But at least one department can help staunch the flow. At the Business Ledger, they figured that if the average car gets 20 miles to each $4 gallon of gas that comes to about $2,400 per year. “That’s a lot of moola,” they wrote. So they set up sales reps with laptops and cell phones — and free reign to work from the local chain-store bakery / soup shop, or the home office.

For some former corporate denizens, home officing became a surprising trap. Self-discipline, the ability to focus on work and tune out distractions (“sorry, dear, you’re now a ‘distraction'”), even isolation, are enough to drive social butterflies into their cocoon. Some rent shared spare. Some network. Some join professional associations like the Freelancer’s Union. Read about “Home Office Life & Its Discontents” in this New York Times piece. And don’t forget to socialize…